I ate at Gallagher's years ago, well before I started yelping. So, I hadn't been able to write a decent review since it had been so long. We had some friends in town over the Memorial Day weekend, and hit up Gallagher's Thursday night. Very, very glad we did. The table shared many appetizers, and in my estimation, the Maryland crab cakes, blackened shrimp and blackened scallops were the winners. And, for $18 you got a very good size portion, 4 of each. I would say the amount of food in the appetizers was atypical for a steakhouse. The sear on the cakes was textbook, and the sauce was excellent. Same with the scallops. The shrimp were very large, perfectly cooked. They are served over cheesy grits, but not too much. Just enough that you can get bites of shrimp and grits together. The blackening is fantastic, I think they should expand this and make it a full entree. Very good shrimp.
To eat, I had the bone in ribeye, which comes with a load of fried onions. This was a fantastic steak, the dry aging is really noticeable. The depth of flavor is much greater than in other steaks. A member of our party had the pork chop, which I thought was solid but dry.
The 4 cheese macaroni was a big hit. The sauce is not too thick, but had excellent cheesy flavor. The onion rings were very crunchy, but a serving only has 4 large ones as I recall. Difficult to share, we had to cut a couple in half. This would have been nice to know when ordering, we probably would have ordered a second helping to make sure everyone got a full ring.
The wine list was good, I would say average for a strip steakhouse. Service was fantastic. Very friendly and not overbearing.
Will definitely return.